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DIRECTIONS TO UNITED STATES MARSHALS AND UNITED STATES 
ATTORNEYS FOR THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE PRESIDENT'S 
PROCLAMATION OF APRIL 6, 1917, AS TO ALIEN ENEMIES. 



(1) Eegulations Nos. 1 and 2 shall be strictly enforced by the 
Marshal, and any alien enemy found with the forbidden articles in 
his possession after April 24, 1917, shall be at once arrested and 
detained, the articles shall be seized, and the case reported to the 
Attorney General. If the Marshal, however (after conference with 
the special agent of the Department of Justice, if there is one in the 
locality, and after approval of the United States Attorney or assist- 
ant United States Attorney), shall be satisfied that the alien enemy 
is not a danger to the public peace or safety and had no knowledge 
of the President's Proclamation, he may refrain from making arrest ; 
or if the alien enemy shall show good cause why temporarily he 
should be permitted to retain such articles, the Marshal, after simi- 
lar conference and approval, may permit such articles to be retained, 
temporarily, under such restrictions as he may deem necessary. 

(2) Regulation No. 4 shall be enforced b}^ the Marshal as follows: 
(«) Alien enemies residing within one-half mile of a fort, camp, 

arsenal, air-craft station. Government or naval vessel, navy yard, 
factory or workshop for the manufacture of munitions of war or of 
any products for the use of the Army or Navy, shall be required to 
remove therefrom before June 1, 1917; provided, however, that any 
alien enemy who prior to June 1, 1917, comes within the purview of 
regulation 12 of the President's Proclamation shall be required to 
remove at once and shall be subject to summary arrest. 

Any alien enemy who fails to remove prior to June 1, 1917, shall 
be summarily arrested. Alien enemies who do not reside within 
one-half mile of the places above referred to and who come within 
one-half mile of said places will do so at their own risk and may be 
summarily arrested. 

The Marshal may issue a permit to anyone to continue to reside 
in the forbidden locality or to come within the forbidden locality 
for the purpose of passing through such ^-mile area or of being 
employed or doing business Avithin the same, if, after ^ich proof 

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as the Marshal may require, he is satisfied that such continuec^ vq 
residence or such passage through or such employment will not be 
dangerous to the community or to the United States. Permits 
must not be issued, however, imtil after the Marshal shall have 
conferred with the Special Agent of the Department of Justice (if 
there is one in the locality), and until after the emplo3"er of the 
applicant shall certify in writing, in such form as the Attorney 
General shall prescribe, that he desires to employ or to continue to 
emplo}^ the applicant, and that he is satisfied that such employment 
will not be to the injury of the community or of the United States 
or until the applicant (if he is himself the head of a business) 
shall give such security or assurance as shall be prescribed that 
he will strictly obey the laAv and the President's Proclamation; and 
the Marshal, before issuing any permit, shall secure the approval 
of the United States Attorney or Assistant United States Attorney. 

All permits issued will be revocable at any time if the interests of 
the United States so require. Whenever permission is given to 
more than one alien enemy to reside or to be employed within a for- 
bidden locality, a violation of law or of the President's Proclamation — ^ 
by any holder of such permit may result in the revocation of the ^ 
permits of every alien enemy within such locality. It will therefore 
be necessary in their own interest that all alien enemies should see 
that each obeys the law and the Proclamation. 

(3) Any alien enemy who tears down, mutilates, abuses, desecrates, 
or insults the United States flag in any way, or displays an enemy 
flag or insignia, is to be regarded as a danger to the public peace or 
safety Avithin the meaning of Regulation 12 and subject to summary 
arrest and confinement. 

(4) Until further instructions, detention of alien enemies for vio- 
lating No. 12 or any other of the regulations contained in the Presi- 
dent's Proclamation should be made by the Marshal after summary 
arrest and not under warrant secured from the court, judge, or 
justice. 

The name of any alien enemy found to violate such regulations or 
to come within the class of persons set forth in regulation 12 should 
be at once wired, by the Marshal or the United States Attorney, to 
■the Attorney General, with a brief statement of facts; but summary 
arrest should not be made by the Marshal until after receijit of 
specific authority from the Attorney General. If, hoAvever, the alien 
ienemy is likely to be an imminent danger to the community or to the 
United States, an emergency summary arrest may be at once made 
by the Marshal, after first conferring with the Special Agent of the 
Department of Justice (if there is one in the locality) and after 
approval of the United States Attorney or Assistant United States 

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> "TSLttorney. In case of such emergency summary arrest, the Marshal 
' or the United States x\ttorney should wire at once to the Attorney 
*'■- General the name of the person and a brief statement of facts. The 
:/ powers hereby given should be exercised with great care, so that 
'' innocent and harmless alien enemies may not be disturbed; but in 
•^ case of known violators or where there are reasonable grounds to 
believe an intended violation, and in case of an emergency, the Mar- 
) shal should act with jjromptness and vigor. 

' Arrests should be made, however, at such reasonable hour and 

with as little degree of publicity and of physical restraint of person 

as is compatible Avith the amount of resistance and likelihood of 

escape and other circumstances. 

. (5) Confinement of persons arrested shall be made by the Marshal 

Vnporarily in the place of confinement usual for Federal prisoners 

I the district; but arrangements will be made for transfer later to 

Itention camps, or immigration stations, or military reservations, 

Irts, or camps, or otherwise, as the Attorney General shall direct. 

(6) In exceptional cases, where the Attorney General shall de- 

ide that the circumstances warrant, alien enemies imder arrest or 

ubject to summary arrest may be allowed to make application for 

jarole. Preliminary statement of the facts shall be submitted by 

the United States Attorney to the Attorney General, and if the latter 

shall deem the facts sufficient a blank form of parole application 

will be forwarded. When the applicant shall fill out and file this 

form, final decision as to granting the parole will be made by the 

Attorney General. All paroles will be revocable at any time if the 

interests of the United States so require. Every person given parole 

•may be required to furnish bond for good behavior, and will be 

'obliged, also, to furnish a supervisor who shall be an American 

citizen and who shall keep in close touch with the parole applicant 

and promptly report any violation of the parole conditions. Every 

person paroled will be obliged to remain within certain specified ter- 

iritory and to report to his supervisor, and otherwise, as directed by 
Jthe Attorney General. Violation of parole w^ill in every case result 

in summary arrest and confinement, or trial in the criminal courts, 

according to the nature of the case. 

As stated above, however, paroles will be granted only in special 

and exceptional cases. 

(7) Full publicity should be given to directions Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 6 
hereof. 

All permits issued, however, shall be on blank forms approved by 
the Attorney General and shall be filled out in duplicate or triplicate 
as he shall decide, copy to be mailed to him as soon as issued. Care- 
ful records of all permits and arrests shall be kept by the Marshal 



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and reports clul}^ made thereof to the Attorney General in such 
manner and form as may be prescribed. 

Careful record shall be kept by the United States Attorneys of all 
applications for parole and action thereon. 

Deputy Marshals, wherever specially authorized by the United 
States Marshals, may act in accordance with the provisions of this 
circular. 

By order of the President. 

T. W. Gregory, 
Attorneij General. 

April 16, 1917. 



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